Re: [PATCH 2/4] i2c: at91: implement i2c bus recovery

[Alexandre Belloni]

On 09/10/2019 15:55:00+0200, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:46:56PM +0200, Kamel Bouhara wrote:
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> > 
> > Implement i2c bus recovery when slaves devices might hold SDA low.
> > In this case re-assign SCL/SDA to gpios and issue 9 dummy clock pulses
> > until the slave release SDA.
> > 
> 
> Hi Kamel,
> 
> Thanks for adding this new feature. As I see patches only for sama5d3 and
> sama5d4, I assume it has not been tested with a sama5d2, isn't it?
> 

I there a point having it on sama5d2 as the controller already supports
this feature?

> I doubt it works with a sama5d2 because of the pinctrl. I also wonder if it can
> work if we add .strict = true to pinmux_ops which is something plan for the
> future...
> 

I don't see why it wouldn't work with strict as this is switching muxing
properly instead of using the pins for two functions at the same time.

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